Method of boxing lead pipe



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A. EUSTON & J. P. NEVILLE. METHOD OF BOXING LEAD PIPE.

No. 312,103. Patented Feb. 10, 1885 Aid-est,

UNITED STATES ATENI FrIcE.

ALEXANDER EUSTON AND JOHN P. NEVILLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

METHOD OF BOXING LEAD PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,103, dated February10, 1885.

Application filed May 29, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER EUSTON and JOHN P. NEVILLE, both of thecity of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in the Method of Putting up Lead Pipe forShipment or Transportation, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings,forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 11's aside View, and Fig. 2 a perspective view.

In the manufacture of lead pipe it has been the practice to coil thepipe around a drum, one layer above another, as it comes from the press,which gives it a cylindrical form. There are a number of disadvantagesarising from this form of coil, among which are, first, the great amountof lostspace or room; secondly, the coil is easily mashed and pressedout. of shape; thirdly, the coil requires to be wrapped with a thickcoat of hay, excelsior, or other suitable material; and, fourthly, thepipe, though the coil is wrapped, is liable to be dented and mashed,which greatly damages it, for dents cannot be taken out of a pipe exceptby removing a section or part of the pipe, which involves a loss of pipeand time, and which necessitates a joint in the pipe.

To avoid all these and other like difficulties, we have devised a newand improved method of putting up this lead pipe for transportation orshipment, which consists in first coilingit, by any suitable means orapparatus, into a flat or watch-spring form, as shown in Fig. 1, andthen placing it in a crate or case, as shownin Fig. 2, on which may bemarked the size of the pipe, makers name, 850. The frame holds theseveral rings of the coil in place, supports the coil, and protects thepipe from being mashed and indented, and when the pipe reaches itsdestination it can be taken out of the case, and is in the best possibleshape to be uncoiled for use.

Referring to the drawings, A, Fig. 1, represents the coil, and B, Fig.2, the crate or package.

We are aware that pipes for heating and cooling apparatuses and similarpurposes have been coiled into a fiat or watch-spring f0rm as, forinstance, the patent to A. D. Brock. dated May 11, 1888, N 0. 276,763,shows such a coil; but these pipes are not lead, as his specificationdescribes athreaded joint, and a thread is never out on lead pipe, themetal being too soft to hold the thread; nor are the Brock pipes andothers of like character boxed, as they consist of hard metal that doesnot require boxing, and they are not merely coiled for the purpose oftransporting them, and to be uncoiled for use, but they are coiled intoa form which they areintended to retain, and in which they are used forheating, cooling, and similar purposes; but

YVhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- The improved method of putting up lead pipe for transportation orshipment, which consists in first coiling it into a fiat or watchspringform, and then putting it into a thin crate or case, which retains thecoils in proper form, and from which it can be easily removed anduncoiled for use when it reaches its destination, as set forth.

ALEXANDER EUSTON. JOHN P. NEVILLE.

In presence of GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.

